Speakers and depth...

s, b+ws have a bbc style dip in the mids and imho, tend to compress the perspective and have less less natural contrast than a speaker with a flatter amplitude through the middle. so what you really need to think about is if you want a speaker that protrays things in a more distant way or a speaker that sounds a little more imediate but actually shows more depth of field.
for eg, hold a record jacket at arms legnth parallel to the floor and see how the 12 inch depth looks considerably less than 12 inches. now move the jacket up to your nose and still parallel to the floor and notice that the record jacket actually looks deeper and less compressed in depth.
so, do you want more depth or a more distant perspective? they are not the same thing.
b

s,
speakers that sound distant compress the depth of field. they also sound deeper than they do, wide.
a speaker with a hole in the mids sounds distant. play a soloist in front of an orchestra on one of these speakers and it sounds like a distant wall of music.
play it on a speaker with a more uniform midrange and the soloist will sound closer to you. but the back of the orchestra and rear hall wall show much more contrast to the soloist as far as layering and ambient information is concerned. the stage width sounds more equal to the depth too.
jmtc.
bobby